At 21, I am a card carrying member of the Bad Back Club. In February of '07, I took a bad spill on ice (a perfect 10, I might add) and pulled 2/3 of the muscles in my back. About 3 weeks ago, I wiped out while kneeboarding at high speed and was thrown in a backwards somersault, throwing my feet...
It's like MySpace, only better.
Y'all should try it, but I will warn you, it's kinda addicting. (A bunch of my EMS buddies from Hartford have slowly migrated over, seems like every one's there now!)
I for some reason just remembered how one of our supervisors used to bring in her Rottweiler to work once in a while. (Supers are in fly cars, obviously, so no patients actually came in contact with the dog.) And, when I first got my cat (he was ~8wks old at the time) everyone-even a couple...
I'm doing a research project for one of my classes (which will hopefully turn into my psychology thesis and dissertation work) and I chose to focus on the prevalence of any type of mental illness in EMS (depression, PTSD, explosive rage, etc. etc.)
Here are a few things that I noticed that...
OK, since everyone got in a tizzy about this in another thread (with all due respect ffemt8978, not trying to start anything), let's try it again.
For those of us who have ink, display it here. I'll go first.
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Left hip
Right shoulder blade
My buddy called me at about midnight last night and said "In 19 years in EMS, I have never seen what I just saw." Of course, I'm hooked, right? So I'm like "OK, what happened?" He can barely contain his laughter as he says "Well, we got dispatched to a man with a knife in his pocket that slipped...
Does anyone have a specific opinion on doing live sticks during training?
We just did it in our class and I ended up with one vein blown, another nicked, and a third that bled like a stuck pig.
It's not that I'm necessarily against live sticks, as I think it's important to learn the...
So I've been on quite the roller coaster in the last 8 months, but now I'm back and (quite literally) better than ever.
Firstly, I left Trinity College, so I really don't think I can call myself TCERT anymore, so it looks like I need to change my name. If any of y'all old folks who remember...
Ok, so one of our new responders for our school squad is deaf. She wears hearing aids, but cannot sleep in them. Unfortunately, many of our calls are at night, and our system is radio based, with a tone being sent out before the dispatch information. Our responder is completely deaf without the...
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So far, so good. A Happy Birthday wake up call at 8am, mignight excitements with the boy, big dinner with the crew tonight. Here's all I have to ask, do I qualify as being "old" now? :P
Last Thursday, my partner and I were on a transfer from the CT Children's Medical Center to the pt's home in Meriden, CT. We got to the house, which was almost at the bottom of a hill with a grade of at least 50 degrees, and found to our (and the pt's mother's) surprise that the entire side walk...
So me and my partner are driving back to Hartford from a transfer we did in Vernon. We're toolin' along on I-84, going West-bound, approximately 2 miles from the exit to go on I-91S. The highway rises, so being at the wheel, I accelerate with the grade. We'd been having a little trouble getting...
Hey y'all. Just wanted to check in and say that yes, I am still alive. (By the way, hello to all of the new people, there are so many of you.)
So here's a play by play of recent events, more or less:
Finished FTO time
Have already done one shift on a two person crew
Still not gotten...
just got off a call. gang related shooting, pt. pronounced at the ed. 5 shots, 2 to the heart. retaliation likely, mom's freaking out. and all on my second day...
that is, after yesterday when we moved a 715 lb. pt. with 10/10 abd. pain. and earlier this evening when we had a van vs. city bus...
We're having big waves being made in our little lagoon of happiness. Tensions are running high after a number of racially ignorant issues have come to light; two black students have had their door whiteboards defaced with racial slurs and a fraternity pledge decided to dress in sexually explicit...